Anthropic Quietly Sent $900K to California Democrats Days Before the Election

Anthropic sent $900,000 to Democratic committees across California in a last-minute burst of political giving, according to a late disclosure form filed with the state on October 30. The bulk of the money, $525,000, went straight to the California Democratic Party, while county parties and a get-out-the-vote group split the rest in the campaign's final stretch before Election Day.

The filing, detailed by The San Francisco Standard, shows Anthropic gave $150,000 to a get-out-the-vote group and $45,000 each to the Democratic parties in San Francisco, San Mateo, Orange, Fresno and Siskiyou counties. The $45,000 check to the San Francisco Democratic Party was Anthropic's only contribution to that local party this cycle, and it arrived after the party had already put $400,000 into two closely watched state Senate races.

San Francisco Democratic Party chair Nancy Tung said the company's donation enabled the party to support two priority races in the California Senate: state Sen. Melissa Hurtado's contest in the Central Valley and state Sen. Catherine Blakespear's race in Southern California. The party contributed $300,000 to Hurtado's campaign in three six-figure checks across September and October, and $100,000 to Blakespear's campaign toward the end of September.

I also don’t get why Anthropic spent so much cash on Democrats in California - a state Democrats have completely sewn up with stupid voters, illegals voting, vote harvesting and mail-in ballot vote fraud.

Re: Los Angeles’s recent mayoral primary where 60k votes were “found” for the Communist in the days after the election.

A simple proposed solution to this problem.

Introduction
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to restrict campaign contributions for candidates to eligible voters.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States:

Proposed Amendment - Campaign Contributions Limited to Eligible Voters
Section 1. Only natural persons who are eligible to vote for a candidate may contribute money or anything of value to that candidate’s campaign.

Section 2. No organization, association, corporation, or other entity shall make, fund, direct, or facilitate contributions to any candidate’s campaign.

Section 3. No person shall make a contribution to any candidate’s campaign on behalf of, or using funds provided by, any individual or entity not eligible to contribute under this article.

Section 4. Congress and the States shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Statement of Intent
The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that electoral influence over candidates for public office is limited to those who are entitled to vote for them. By tying campaign contributions directly to voter eligibility, this amendment strengthens representative democracy, reduces external and institutional influence over elections, and preserves the principle that elected officials should be accountable only to their constituents.

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